Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Animals, History, Culture)

247 Pages·2010·2.35 MB·English

by  Erika L. Milam

Looking for a Few Good Males
animals, history, culture
Harriet Ritvo, Series Editor
Looking for a Few Good Males
FEMALE CHOICE IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974–
Looking for a few good males : female choice in evolutionary biology /
Erika Lorraine Milam.
p. cm. — (Animals, History, Culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-8018-9419-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-8018-9419-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Courtship in animals. 2. Evolution (Biology). 3. Courtship in animals—
Research—History—20th century. I. Title.
ql761.m48 2010
591.56'2—dc22 2009023833
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contents
Introduction 
CHAPTER 1.
Beauty and the Beast:
Darwin, Wallace, and the Animal- Human Boundary 
CHAPTER 2.
Progressive Desire:
Rational Evolution after the Great War 
CHAPTER 3.
Branching Out, Scaling Up:
American Experiments on Behavior 
CHAPTER 4.
Courtly Behavior:
The Rituals of British Zoologists 
CHAPTER 5.
A Science of Rare Males:
The Genetics of Populations in the Long 1960s 
CHAPTER 6.
Selective History:
Writing Female Choice into Organismal Biology 
Conclusion 
Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Essay on Sources 
Index 
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Looking for a Few Good Males